Perishable press (59 résultats)

First edition. 68 pp. 4to. Fine in stapled wrappers. Essay by Schlesinger, "Becoming Perishable" with a year-by-year checklist of the press.

Etat : Good. Prospectus. 8vo. Single Folded Sheet (4 pp.), Deckled Edge, Very Good. Illustrated.This is the Prospectus for a book, not the book itself.

broadside. small 4to. broadside. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. A fine copy. Limited to 200 copies (Hamady 98). Frontispiece illustration by Janet Morgan. A collection of poetry. Printed by hand by Walter Hamady on handmade paper. Perishable Press (illustrateur).

broadside. small square 8vo. broadside. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. A fine copy. Limited to 200 copies (not in Hamady). Foreword. A collection of poetic works. Cover illustration by Ellen Lanyon. Printed by hand by Walter Hamady of the Perishable Press. Perishable Press (illustrateur).

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Sewn handmade wrappers, matching DW, slender narrow 4to., (12) pages, drawing by Warrington Colescott. One of 120 copies printed by Walter Hamady at his Perishable Press from Sabon Antiqua on Shadwell handmade paper. Signed by the author. The wrappers and DW paper have thyme & nonna flower inclusions. A fine copy in archival mylar. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Sabon. One of 225 signed copies printed in black and grey on Umbria paper. Sewn into a four-folded sheet of Raffaello Roma with the title printed off-white on the front cover. A fine copy. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Sabon with display in Augustea Inline. One of 150 copies, press-numbered in Roman numerals and signed by the author, printed in black, red-brown and grey on cream wove paper. Sewn into overlapping red-brown Roma wrappers, printed in purple on the front. A near fine copy. Signed by Author(s).…

12mo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (iii), 14, (2) pages. Limited to 200 copies (Hamady 13). List of acknowledgments. A collection of poetry. Text on recto only. Variant Binding in grey wrappers. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket, top edge cut, other edges uncut. Perishable Press (illustrateur).…

12mo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (iii), 14, (2) pages. Limited to 200 copies (Hamady 13). List of acknowledgments. A collection of poetry. Text on recto only. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket, top edge cut, other edges uncut. Perishable Press (illustrateur).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Quarter purple calfskin titled in blind with brown cloth-covered boards, small square 8vo., (i), 23, (1) pages, line-cut of a self-portrait photograph by the author. One of 200 copies printed by Walter Hamady at his Perishable Press from Palatino type on Barcham Green Medway handmade paper. Bound by Elizabeth Kner. Warm presentation by Hamady. One of Hamady's favorites. Trace of rubbing to the cloth edges, boards ever so slightly splayed, else a near fine copy in archival mylar. Signed by Author(s).…

8vo. quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards, title stamped in black on spine. unpaginated. Limited to 200 numbered copies. This copy has been inscribed by Snodgrass on the verso of the half-title page: "For / Michael Broomfield / with all good wishes, / S. S. Gardons / W. D. Snodgrass." Spine lightly faded, minor rubbing to spine ends, else a near fine copy. Printed by Walter Hamady of the Perishable Press in Palatino, set by Mary Hamady, on Shadwell paper especially made for this book over Thanksgiving at the Hamady's. Bound by Douglas Cockerell from Cambridge, United Kingdom. quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards, title stamped in black on spine. Perishable Press (illustrateur). …

8vo. quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards, title stamped in black on spine. unpaginated. Limited to 200 numbered copies, of which this is copy [#1]. This copy has been inscribed by Snodgrass on the front preliminary page to Michael Broomfield and his wife: "For / Michael and Deborah, / Long may they! / W. D. Snodgrass." Additionally, this copy has been inscribed by the publisher of the press on the rear endpaper: "Walter Hamaday / Easter Weekend 1986 / Sunny & Hot & Windy." A near fine copy. Printed by Walter Hamady of the Perishable Press in Palatino, set by Mary Hamady, on Shadwell paper especially made for this book over Thanksgiving at the Hamady's. Bound by Douglas Cockerell from Cambridge, United Kingdom. quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards, title stamped in black on spine. Perishable Press (illustrateur). …

Etat : Good. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Single Page, Very Good with creasing. Letterpress on fine paper. Illustration.

Etat : Good. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Single Page, Very Good with creasing. Letterpress on fine paper. "Listing of available back titles on request." In enveloped addressed to Jack O'Reilly, San Francisco, post dated March 10, 1975.

Etat : Good. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Single Page, Very Good with creasing. Letterpress on fine paper. Illustration.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Sabon. One of 275 copies printed in black, red, brown and blue on three shades of variegated Roama paper.

Unbound. Etat : Fine. First edition, Single sheet printed on recto only, 5.25" x 13", illustrated. A fine copy of a lovely poem, beautifully printed on hand made paper. Limited to 158 copies Signed by William Heyen.

Hard Cover. Etat : Near Fine binding. Octavo. [32] pp. Limited edition, number 36 of 200 copies, only 140 of which were for sale. Signed by Olson under the dedication. As issued in navy blue cloth over flexible boards; illustrated vignette by Jack Beal stamped in gold on the front cover. Spine is trivially sunned, barely perceptible, otherwise, a very clean, fresh copy. Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 28. The second of several collaborations between Hamady and the poet and novelist, Toby Olson who would go on to win the PEN/Faulkner for Fiction for his novel Seaview.…

paper wrappers. 8vo. paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 250 copies. Hamady 19. Fine in wrappers and fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of a lovely book. Perishable Press (illustrateur).

Original wrappers. Etat : Near fine. First Edition. Sewn brown wrappers with blind-embossed jacket. One of 167 copies printed, signed by Hamady. Very slight rubbing to corners. Hamady 26.

Title and colophon with illustration and device One of 120 numbered copies in Palatino on Shadwell hand-made Fine copy Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, red leather corners, uncut.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good+ binding. First Edition. Octavo. [34] pp. Limited edition, one of 250 copies. As issued, in brown cloth over board with title stamped in blind on the front cover; all pages are printed on the recto only, except the copyright page which is on the verso of the title, as is customary. Hamady's striking calligraphic mark on the colophon. The cloth is unevenly sunned on both the front and rear covers; boards are a trifle bowed; internally, this is a bright, clean copy. Winner of the American Institute of Graphic Arts' Fifty Best Books Award in 1967, one of only a few Perishable Press books to receive the recognition. Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 11.…

Original Wrappers. Etat : Near Fine binding. 16mo. [16] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 145 copies. Printer's graphically fantastic inscription on the front free endpaper. As issued, sewn into marbled paper wrappers; two remarkably intricate illustrations by Laird that have limited hand-tinting by Walter Hamady with colored pencil. Quite a lovely issue from the Perishable Press. Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 76.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Japanese decorated paper-covered boards, cover label printed in red and blind, small 8vo., (21) pages. One of 183 copies printed by Walter Hamady at his Perishable Press from Palatino and Smaragd types on Shadwell handmade paper, this copy on white paper. Bound by Elizabeth Kner. Bare trace of wear to the spine ends, else a fine copy in archival mylar.…

Etat : Fine. 1st Edition, Special Edition. Set in Sabon and printed in a variety of colours (on one side of the leaf) on Shadwell paper. One of 80 copies. Sewn into plum pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. Presentation inscripton in Walter Hamady' hand. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Palatino and Michelangelo and printed in red, black and bbrown on Nideggen paper. One of 170 (250) copies. Bound by Elizabeth Kner in brown cloth boards blocked in blind on the front. Book label. Very slight mark to upper cover. A very good to fine copy. for the real spider = a fine short-order cook.…

Original Wrappers. Etat : Near Fine binding. First Edition. Oblong 12mo. [16] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, signed by Wakoski at the colophon. Printed in black Palatino on handmade ivory-colored Shadwell paper sewn into Fabriano paper covers with jacket and acronym of the title:author stamped in blind on the front; "illustrated by an anonymous diagram of the mechanics for the piano, key and wire, etc." Hamady notes in the bibliography, "This paper was couched on the 'magic felt' which was gratis from a papermill here in Wisconsin. It was loaded with pigment from its last job, so each pressing produced a different color in the sheet, beginning with a hot pink & lighter to an orange & on to Ivory & finally off-white with light tangerine deckles!" Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 24. A beautiful fine printing of Wakoski's haunting poem. Signed.…

Original Wrappers. Etat : Near Fine binding. Tall octavo. [12] pp. Limited edition, one of 120 copies, of which 75 were for sale. As issued, sewn into handmade wrappers. Spine is a trifle sunned, otherwise, Fine. A wonderful printing of the work of one of the great American poets and translators. Merwin was a beloved and critically acclaimed poet winning numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice. Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 49. …

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good+ binding. First Edition. Octavo. [26] pp. Limited edition, one of 183 copies. This copy signed by Laughlin on the half title page. As issued in decorative Japanese paper over boards with printed paper title label on the front cover. A bright, fresh copy with only light soiling to the title label; bottom corner of the front boards is just a trifle bumped. Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 32. Signed.…

8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 140 copies (Hamady 96). A fine copy. Illustrations by John Digby. A collection of poetry. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. Perishable Press (illustrateur).